A Painted Grasshopper_Poekilocerus pictus

Dear Friends,

Wishing you a very happy Ganesh Chaturthi...

It was a holiday & an usual trip to Yeoor range of Sanjay Gandhi National Park to start the day. Green grass has started to turn yellowish. We are approaching end of monsoon season & all juvenile painted grass-hoppers have turned adult. Last year could see one of them with the molt.

This young specimen presented itself in full glory with some water droplets of rains left below. These are seen in large nos. in Yeoor, feasting on milkweed plant & basking in Sunlight.